Tosca Lee visited us last week for Saturdays in the Nook. Read it here.
She has also generously offered to give one of our readers a copy of her book!
About the Book:Eve, exiled to a life outside paradise, nears death. As she waits, she recounts the story of her creation and a cruel existence. Revisit the birth of humankind through the eyes of the first woman ever to live.
To enter the giveaway, just leave a comment about your favorite fictionalized account of a real person. For a second entry, leave a comment on her Saturdays in the Nook post. If you blog about this contest with a link back to this post, you’ll get TWO extra entries. This contest will be open until October 19th. I will contact the winner via email.
You might also want to visit Tosca’s site…she’s clearing out some things she used in research of the book that look really fascinating. Go check it out!
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October 11th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Ooh,this sounds good! I can’t remember the author, but I really liked the book Ruth that was based off the book of Ruth in the Bible. I like how it made her story come alive.
October 11th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Not sure if this counts, but Francine Rivers’ rendition of Hosea in Michael Hosea in Redeeming Love takes all my honors.
October 11th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
My favourite has to be Saint Francis by Nikos Kazantzakis about Francis of Assisi. Please enter me, I would love to read this book. Thank you.
October 11th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
I really like Washington’s Lady that I read earlier this year. Both for Martha and for George, making me realize that they didn’t have the “hindsight” to know they would win their war against England. A good “thinker” for me! I love history books that do that and I hope this one is like it!
October 12th, 2008 at 3:44 am
I love the book “Blonde” by Joyce Carole Oates, a fictionalized account of Marilyn Monroe’s life. I saw her read from it live when I lived in Hoboken..it was sooo cool. Thanks for the contest.
October 12th, 2008 at 6:33 am
moon rising- bram stoker and his love affair with damaris steele is geat reading
October 12th, 2008 at 6:38 am
I really like reading Nigel Tranter’s works. He wrote The Wallace, which was about William Wallace, which is one of my favourite books.
October 12th, 2008 at 7:13 am
I love to read about Mary, Queen of Scots. One of my favorites is an oldie: “Royal Road to Fotheringhay: The Story of Mary, Queen of Scots” by Jean Plaidy.
October 12th, 2008 at 7:56 am
John A. McDonald in Canada
October 12th, 2008 at 10:00 am
This sounds like such an interesting story! I remember reading the story of Madame Currie-fascinating story.
October 12th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Forgot who the author was but the book was titled, Cleopatra
gkstratos@yahoo.com
October 12th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
The only book I can think of that is about a real person yet is fiction is the story of Anne Boyeln in “In The Shadows of Lions” by Ginger Garrett. Great, absolutely great book! Paints Anne in a totally different light than any of the other novels I have read about her.
I’d love to read this book about Eve!!!
Thank you
Darby
darbyscloset at yahoo dot com
October 12th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Blonde: A Novel by Joyce Carol Oates written about Marilyn Monroe
October 12th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
I’m going back to my childhood here, but I’ve always loved Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Little House series. I love how more authors are now doing “spin offs” of her original series.
Thanks!
October 12th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
has to be i, claudius by robert graves
October 12th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Off the top of my head, the most recent one I can think of was Anne Boleyn…In The Shadow of Lions. Even though it was completely confusing at times, I really liked it.
Thanks!
sj3girls(at)hotmail(dot)com
October 12th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
How about “Mason & Dixon” by Thomas Pynchon?
October 13th, 2008 at 5:03 am
The Girl With a Pearl Earring by Chevalier for the fictionalized portrait of Vermeer.
October 13th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Blonde: A Novel by Joyce Carol Oates written about Marilyn Monroe
October 13th, 2008 at 11:26 am
Thank you for having this. A good book I had once read was a book by Tito Ortiz. Thank you1
tatertot374@sbcglobal.net
October 13th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
I read a fiction account of the kidnapping of the baby back in the 1940’s from a detective point of view – interesting reading.
Thanks for this great contest and prize!
October 13th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
i;m ready for a new read
October 14th, 2008 at 6:02 am
I love these types of books. Francine Rivers does a great job too. Please enter me and thanks for the contest.
October 14th, 2008 at 9:00 am
Dear and Glorious Physician by Taylor Caldwell. This was a fictionalized story of Luke’s life that I read about 35 years ago. Wonderful!
I am intrigued by Lee’s story of Eve. Thanks for this giveaway.
cjarvis [at] bellsouth [dot] net
October 14th, 2008 at 9:40 am
I blogged about your post, and here’s the link to my blog: http://booksmusicandlife.blogspot.com/
I’m new at blogging, but this was fun!
October 14th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
The most recent was the fictionalized untold story of Mary, Queen of Scots. (The Other Queen by Phillipa Gregory.)
October 14th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
I absolutely love all of Jimmy Buffet books. The one I am reading now is a Pirate Looks at Fifty. I love his stories, and they are true!
October 15th, 2008 at 1:24 am
Amy, don’t enter me for this giveaway, but I just wanted to say that I am just DYING to read this book. It’s at the top of my To Be Read pile!
Camy
October 15th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
My favorite to date is Two From Galilee about Mary & Joseph. I’m currently really enjoying reading In The Shadow Of Lions by Ginger Garrett about Anne Boleyn!
October 16th, 2008 at 12:02 am
I would have to say that my favorites would either be one of my recent reads, Michelle Moran’s The Heretic Queen or any of Marek Halter’s Canaan Trilogy books on the life of Zipporah, Lilah, Sarah or Mary of Nazareth. All of these books were amazing reads and really brought the characters’ stories to life. Thanks for this giveaway! awalworth19(at)gmail(dot)com.
October 16th, 2008 at 5:27 am
I’m currently reading Nefertiti and I can tell already that this will be one of my favorite books. I am loving it!
October 16th, 2008 at 8:32 am
Sounds like a great book. Count me in please
October 17th, 2008 at 8:22 am
I read PILATE’S WIFE and it was pretty good.
October 17th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
I know it’s not a book (I know, I know!) But Bubba Ho-Tep’s account of Elvis and JFK is still my favorite fictionalized account of historical figures. Assassins was pretty good read, too.
October 17th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
sounds of music – the von Trapp family
October 17th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Probably the Other Boleyn Sister or, Abundance (Marie Antoinette). Thanks for the giveaway!
October 17th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
I love any of the “Childhood of Famous Americans” books, and esp. liked the one of George Eastman.
October 18th, 2008 at 12:41 am
I can’t remember the author, but I read a book about Mary that was good – written from her perspective.
October 18th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Joyce Carol Oates’ “Black Water”
October 18th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
mine was mary,of the bible..But i cannot remember who wrote it…enter me please..
October 18th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
got u blogged as well..thanks for the extra entry!
October 18th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Sounds like a great book count me in on the win and thanks for the chance
October 19th, 2008 at 12:12 am
The Murder of Bob Crane by Robert Graysmith
October 19th, 2008 at 1:28 am
Esther based on Esther of the bible – way different then the bible’s version.
October 19th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Lincoln: a novel by Gore Vidal
October 19th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
I enjoyed Anne Rice’s “Out of Egypt”, a fictionalized account of the childhood of Jesus.
October 19th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
This sounds like such an interesting story!
October 19th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
I love “Desiree” about the woman who was engaged to Napoleon Bonaparte pre-Josephine, married one of his marshalls, and ended up the queen of Sweden. It drew me into that period of history and I could not read enough about Napoleon or the Swedish royal line.
October 19th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Joan of Arc That’s it
October 19th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
I loved Little Women!
December 4th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
I’ve been wanting to read this one! I loved The Road Home by Tommy Tenney – about the life of Ruth. It is a modern day version, but really made a lot of things come to life and something to relate to (not that I’ve ever had a life come close to the Ruth in The Road Home!).
December 6th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
I also loved the Francine Rivers book Redeeming Love. I am so looking forward to reading your book. Just finished reading The Shack by Paul Young and was looking for another great book to read!